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Those of you from the Freshwater forums (especially planted) may know me well, but after I fix my 55 gallon, I'm thinking about turning my 10 gallon into a sw tank. First, I was wondering if I could get some ideas of what to expect. Asside from the salt, what differences are there between...

Ok, now I have a new problem (see picture) I just noticed this, its a 55 gallon tank. It is hanging on by a thread. What do I do? I afraid it my put stress on the glass if it breaks!

The Story: I had a business trip in CO for a week (dismally cold place, good to be back in Texas). Anyway, I get home to find my filter not pumping. After investigating I found the filter was clogged, my pre-filter fell off and some of my swordtail's were stupid enough to get sucked in...

My gold apple snail dieded. He lived to the ripe old age of 1 1/2 (in tropical temperature).

My cat loves to jump up at the front of my tank and watch the fish scatter, but the cories don't scatter. Of course this irritates my cat to no end but it does make me wonder... are cories visually impaired or merely brave by nature?

So, I have been traveling due to work a lot and as a result of inconsistent fertilization schedules, BBA is running rampant in my tank, the plants are alive but suffer largely from malnutrition and algae and I think it is time to clean this mess up. Alas, the once beautiful rock terraces have...

I just thought I would share, this stuff started growing in my tank completely on its own. My guess is that it migrated when I planted glosso (which did not survive). For a time I thought it was glosso and I kept trying to replant it to no avail. Its a beautiful plant, but unfortunately it...

I work for a company named Ferguson Beauregard. We make natural gas production equipment. Now, I have an All Glass Mini Bow 5 at work and I want to build an underwater well site. I need help suggesting materials for constructing these. Safe craft items, types of plastics, etc. There are...

This time I put titles and music to it with windows movie maker. Enjoy. Unfortunately, my stem plants are recently recovering from a nutrition problem so they aren't as tall as last time.

I set my little brother up with my old Eclipse 12 tank several months ago. He has 4 swordtails from my tank and an apple snail in it. I've tried to teach him my experiences, but sometimes I wonder if he is paying attention. Recently he discovered Planaria in his tank. He kind of ignored it...

Its a momentous occasion today, I just found out we have an Local Fish Store open for business in Tyler TX!!! In other news, hell froze over today. Serisously, we were eating across the street from a shopping center and on the way out I looked over and saw a store called "Exotic Fish", of...

For the past two weeks my betta has been almost non-stop pacing back and forth across one side of the tank. Occasionally he will swim over, pick at something on the ground (presumably food) and then go right back to it. He doesn't come to the top and eat like he used too though. Water...

I set up a new office tank recently (about 2 weeks ago) and used BioSpira with a great deal of success. Using Ace Ammonia I tested to see if the BioSpira was a hit or miss and it turns out after 2 days the tank was fully cycled so I added a betta (after a good water change of course)...

The biggest problem of my tank is dosing iron, if I'm not dosing too much I'm not dosing enough. I've gone from one extreme with dying plants to the other with full algae blooms. I just can't seem to balance it. What should my target ppm iron be for using Plantex CSM+B? I'm told I can't...

I want to give some of my swordtails to my brother in law. He is not interested in breeding them and I have way too many males. Will the male swordtails be less aggressive toward each other if there are no other livebearers in the tank? I was going to give him 7 or 8 of my males which would...

I'm trying to replace the transformer on my moonlighting. Does anyone know how to remove one of these strain relief fittings so I can get the cord out?

I'm looking for a ground cover plant and I can't find any locally. I would prefer Hemianthus callitrichoides, but will accept glossostigma elatinoides as well. Plants I have available include Ammannia gracilis, Cryptocoryne Wendtii (Red), Cryptocoryne walkeri. The Wendtii is a particularly...

I have a green cory in my tank who has grown a single large white cyst like spot from the back of his dorsal fin. I noticed it while doing a water change this evening. It doesn't really look like Ich but I'm not certain. Its only one spot and its very large, almost the size of half a grain of...

Ok, so I went to the LFS and saw they had clown loaches, and like the noobish one I am I confused them with Yo-Yo Loaches and bought one. I got home and looked them up to find out they get BIG. I've heard they grow very slow, but the question is how long do I have before he outgrows my tank...

Ammonia: 0 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: 10ppm PH: 6.2 I'm having some trouble with my swordtail fry (not really fry anymore) but anyway, they keep hovering at the top and later I find them dead at the bottom at the tank. They do this one or two at a time. They don't eat once they start hovering at the...

I had 2 constipated fish, I tried to feed them blanced peas and one of them eventually ate them and is now swimming around just fine. But the other one is hovering at the top and won't eat. The peas sink to fast. What should I do?

I believe I am suffering from a lack of O2 in my tank. I have fish hovering at the surface of the tank. The problem: Add oxygen to the tank without increasing surface aggitation and decreasing CO2. I have heard that it has been proven that O2 does not displace CO2 and vice versa. If this is...

Is there a trustworthy iron test kit out there? I'm having some trouble keeping thread algae under control and I have no way of knowing how often I should dose iron.

Ok, well the name "Diary of a 55 gallon planted tank" was already taken, but here are all the pictures I have been promising you guys for a very long time now. Some of the idea's in the design of this tank were not mine, I just compiled them for my own purposes. I am going the concentrate on...

Ok, so either I'm doing the test wrong or it took 18 drops with the AP GH Test to change colors. In the tank I have Eco-Complete, Plants, 2 big pieces of Malaysian wood and several stones which were identified as quartzite, and ammonia. Any ideas what went wrong? The last time I did it, it...